Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-31

they would not have been Sauntering un-
der the trees and hungering after that
fruit which destroyed them and their pos.
terity; proof positive for all ages to come
that those who do not attend to their bust
ness are sure to get into mischief. do
not know that the prodigal in scripture
| would ever have been reclaimed had he
not given up his idle habits aud gone 10
fseding swine for living. ''Go to the
ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways
and be wise, which having no oyerseGr or
guide proVideth her food in the summer
aud gathereth her meat in the harvest. "
The devil does not often attack the man
who is busy with the pen, and the book,
and the trowel, and the saw, and the han-
mer. He is afraid of those weapons. But
woe TO the man whom this roaring lion
meets with his hands in his pockets Do
not demand that your toll always be elO-
quent, aud cleanly, and refined. There is
certain amount of drudgery through
which We must all pass, whatever be our
occupation. You know
HOW MEN ARE SENTENCED,
certain number to years of prison, and
after they have suffered and worked out
the time, then they are allowed to 60 free
And so it is with all of u.s. God passed
on US the sentence: "By the sweat of thy
brow shalt thou eat bread" We must
eUdure our time Of drudgery, and then,
after a while, we will be allowed TO go in
to comparative liberty. We must be will
ing TO endure the sentence. We all know
what drudgery Is connected with the be-
ginning of any trade or profession, but this
does not continue all our lives, if il be the
students, or the merchants, or the me
chanics life. know you have at the be-
ginning many hard time, but after a
while these things will become easy.
You will be your own master. God )
sentence will be satisfied. You will
be discharged from prison. Bless
Col that you have a brain to
think, and hands to work, and feet TO walk
with, for in your constant activity, o
young man, is one OF your strongest de-
fenses. Put your trustin God and do your
level best. That child had it right when
the horses ran away with the load of wood
and he sat upon it: When asked if he was
frightened, he said "No prayed to God
and hung on like beaver"
Again, profound respect for the Sabbath
will he to the young man powerful pre-
servatiOn against evil. God has thrust
into the toll and fatigue life a recreative
day, when the soul is especially TO be fed.
1t is 10 new tangled notion of Wild
hrained reiOrmer, but an institution estab-
liShed at the beginning. God has made
natural and moral laws 80 harmonious that
the body as well rs the soul demands this
institution. Our bodies are seven.day
clocks, that must be wound up as often as
thet, or they will run down. Failure must
come sooner or later to the man who
breaks the Sabbath Inspiration has call
ed it the Lords Day, aud he who devotes
it to the world is guilty of robbery. God
will not let the
SIN GO UNFINISHED
either in this world or the world to come.
This is the statement of 4 man who had
broken this divine enactment:
~ was engaged in manufacturing on the
Lehigh river On the Sabbath ] used to
rest, but never regarded God in in it One
beautiful Sabbath, when the noise was all
hushed, and the day was all that lowell
ness could make it, | sat down on my
piazza, and went to work inventing a new
shuttle / neither stopped TO eat noP
drink till the sun went down. BY that
time had the invention completed. The
next morning ! exhibited it, boasting of
my days work, and was applauded. The
shuttle was tried and worked we'll, but
that Sabbath days work cost me thirty
thousand dollars. We branohed out and
enlarged, and the curse of heaven was
upon me from that day upward"
While the divine irown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statute, Gods
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes it. This day,
properly observed, will throw a hallowed
influence over all the week. The song
and sermon, and sanctuary will hold back
from presumptuOus scenes. The young
man who begins the duties of life with
either secret or open disrespect OF the holy
day, venture to prophesy, will meet with
no prominent su cesses. Gods curse will
fail upon his ship, his store, his Office, his
studio, his body, aud his soul. The way
of the wicked lie turneth upside down. In
one of the old fables it was said that a
wonderful child was born in Bagdad, and
magician could hear his footsteps six
thousand miles away. But ! can hear in
the footstep of that young man, on his
way to the house OF worship this morning,
step not only Ofa lifetime of usefulness but
the coming step of eternal joys of heavens
yet millions of miles away.
Again, q noble ideal and confident ex-
peCtation of approximating to 1t, will in
fallibly advance. The artist
COMPLETES IN HIS MIND
the great thought that he wishes to transfer
to the canvas Of the marble before he takes
up the crayon OF the chisel. The archi-
tect plans out the entire structure before
he orders the wOrkmen to begin, and
though there may for long while seem
TO he nothing but laundering and rudeness
he has in his mind every Corintbian
wreath, and Gothic arch and Byzantine
capital. The poet arrauges the entire plot
before he begins 10 chime the first canto OF
tinCling rhythms. And yet, stranger TO
! us. there are men who attempt to build
their ch aracter without knowing whether
in the end it shall he rude traitors den
or a st. Marks of Venice. Men who begin
to write the intricate poem of their
lives without knowing whether it
shall be a Homer's Odyssey or a
rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and
ninety-nine men ont Of thousand are
living without any great life-plot. Booted,
and spurred, aad plumed, and urging their
swift courser in the hottest haste. come
ont and ask: "HallOO, man, whittier
awayP" His response is: Nowhere. "
Rush into the busy shop or store of many
a one, aud taking the plane out of the
mans hands and laying down the yard
stick say: "What, man, is all this about,
so much stir and sweat?" The reply will
stumble and break down between teeth
and lips. Every days duty ought only
to he the following up of the main plan OF
existence. Let men be consistent II
they prefer misdeeds to correct courses OF
action, then let them draw out the design
Of knavery, and cruelty, aud plunder. Let
every days falsehooi and wrOUg-doing De
added as coloring to the picture. Let
bloody deeds red stripe thecanvas, and the
clouds of wnthful God hang down heav'